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&Now 2019 Conference

We look forward to seeing you this September at &Now: Points of Convergence!
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Anne Lesley Selcer

San Francisco, California

Anne Lesley Selcer is the author of Sun Cycle, winner of the CSU Poetry Center Press First Book Award, and Blank Sign Book, a collection of essays on art, both released in 2019. Her chapbook From a Book of Poems on Beauty won the Gazing Grain award. Art writing includes Banlieusard, a book-length text for Artspeak on media and sense memory, and Untitled (a treatise on form) for 2nd Floor Projects. Her writing and poetry has appeared in nine anthologies, as well as in Hyperallergic, Fillip, Jacket2, Art Practical, Open Space, Fillip, Fence, The Chicago Review, and GaussPDF among others, as well as in gallery and museum catalogs. Anne Lesley writes about images, form, beauty, invisibility, formlessness, abjection, and political emotion. She occasionally creates off the page.

My Friends

3:00pm PDT

Registration and Bookfair Drop Off North Creek Events CenterBillie Swift • Mateó B. Ochoa

7:00pm PDT

Keynote Performance by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs North Creek Events Center

8:00pm PDT

Opening Reception North Creek Events Center

8:30am PDT

A Collaboration of Amateurs Mobius Art GalleryEric Acosta • Amaranth Borsuk • Marina Burandt • Nicolas Hauser • Sabina Livadariu • Abigail Mandlin • Denise Calvetti Michaels • Ashley Noelle • Matthew Porter • Johanna Riggle Segesser • Stephanie Segura • Nicholas Sweeney The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century Art Mobius Art GalleryMatt Kirkpatrick The Mueller Report as Poetic Text Mobius Art GalleryBen Doller • Sandra Doller

9:00am PDT

Excavating Trauma & Elevating Self-Care: A Cross-Genre Conversation on Convergence DISC-061 AuditoriumSerena Chopra • Julia Cohen • Lily Hoang • Sara Renee Marshall • Joanna C. Valente On the Intellectual & Sensuous UW1-121S. Brook Corfman • Gabrelle Rajerison • S. Yarberry Writing and Embodiment UW2-021 Dance StudioNaomi Macalalad Bragin • Jen Soriano

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

Responding to Grief and Trauma UW1-121Tracy Jane Gregory • Corbin Louis • Reinetta Van, Captain, US Navy (Retired) • Quintan Ana Wikswo Spelling: Poetry as spell-casting DISC-252Tamiko Beyer • Destiny Hemphill • Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez • Lisbeth White

12:00pm PDT

Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium North Creek Events Center Lunch Break North Creek Events Center

1:15pm PDT

Real Life: An Installation UW2-021 Dance StudioEmma Gomis • Abraham Avnisan • Courtlin Byrd • Julie Carr • Joe Steele • Edwin Torres Learning to Die, A lot DISC-252Katherine Agyemaa Agard • Meliza Bañales • Teresa Carmody • Miranda Mellis • Reema Rajbanshi • Anna Joy Springer Writing and Performance Across Multilingual Networks DISC-061 AuditoriumGabrielle Civil • Angel Dominguez • ELÆ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson] • Sawako Nakayasu • Orchid Tierney On Ugliness UW1-060Broc Rossell • Jordan Scott

2:30pm PDT

Break

3:00pm PDT

Art Writing: Upending the Critic UW1-040Jared Stanley • Leora Fridman • Dorothy R. Santos • Anne Lesley Selcer Visual Poetics UW1-121Austin Brady • Daniel Uncapher • Nico Vassilakis Asymptotic Convergence, Restless Slippage: Roundtable on the Work of Nathaniel Mackey DISC-252Will Alexander • Maria Damon • Joseph Donahue • Jeanne Heuving • Erica Hunt • Adalaide Morris Poetics as Play and Possibility: An Interactive Workshop UW1-060Lauren Russell • Keith S. Wilson

4:15pm PDT

Afternoon coffee and refreshments Mobius Hall Theater

4:30pm PDT

Keynote Book Sales Mobius Hall Theater

4:45pm PDT

Keynote Presentation by Barbara Browning Mobius Hall TheaterBarbara Browning

9:00am PDT

Limit Texts and Synesthesia UW1-121Ryan Bell • Deven Philbrick • Jason Zuzga Shards to Mosaic: The Power of Making Art Across Disciplines DISC-061 AuditoriumSamuel Ace • Laura Christina Dunn • Sawako Nakayasu • Sarah Rosenthal • Valerie Witte

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

Beyond Return: Translation, Diaspora, and the Poetics and Politics of Origin UW1-040Quenton Baker • Susan Gevirtz • Zhang Er • Eleni Stecopoulos Expanding the Inquiry: RAD! Residencies @&Now UW1-030Harold Abramowitz • Will Alexander • Michelle Detorie • Joseph Mosconi • Gillian Osborne • Andrea Quaid • Laura Vena Sounding Failure: Against Convergence as a Utopian Ideal UW2-021 Dance StudioSara Deniz Akant • Ashna Ali • Daisy Atterbury

12:00pm PDT

Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium North Creek Events Center Lunch Break North Creek Events Center

1:15pm PDT

Sound / Site / Archive UW1-010Abraham Avnisan • Ian Bawn • Kelly Dulaney • Carlito Espudo • Jeff T. Johnson Abstraction, Engagement, and Time: the Politics of Form DISC-252Deborah Meadows • Maya Sonenberg • Cole Swensen ALL THIS & MORE: Form, Subjectivity, and Difference in Hybrid, Multidisciplinary Works DISC-162Mary-Kim Arnold • Jan Maghinay Padios • Dao Strom • lê thi diem thúy Language Tactics UW1-040Joel Felix • Broc Rossell • Mady Schutzman • Edwin Torres Where Languages Converge / Collide UW2-005 AuditoriumTonya Foster • Stefania Heim • Prageeta Sharma • Mónica de la Torre • Simone White

2:30pm PDT

Break

3:00pm PDT

Whereby the Present Haunts Itself UW1-030Yanara Friedland • Tom Haviv • Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman • Jane Wong WITH WAVES: A Collaborative Performance DISC-252Harold Abramowitz • Toby Altman • cris cheek • Brad Gallagher • Kenning JP Garcia • Ian Hatcher • Marcy Rae Henry • Paolo Javier • Jennifer Karmin • Cy Ozgood • Deborah Poe • Matt Trease

4:15pm PDT

Afternoon Coffee and Refreshments Mobius Hall Theater

4:30pm PDT

Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium Mobius Hall Theater

4:45pm PDT

Keynote Reading & Conversation with Nathaniel Mackey, Introduction by Jeanne Heuving Mobius Hall TheaterNathaniel Mackey

6:15pm PDT

Reception Mobius Hall Theater

7:00pm PDT

Marathon reading kick-off: Imre Lodbrog et sa Petite Amie (Sébastien Régnier and Barbara Browning) Mobius Hall TheaterBarbara Browning • Sébastien Régnier

7:30pm PDT

Marathon reading continues Mobius Hall Theater

9:00am PDT

Re-Building Realities: Experimental Forms & Formats in Queer Writing UW1-030Elanor Broker • Rachel Linn • Miranda Schmidt The "Several Lives" of Multimedia Texts DISC-162Rajnesh Chakrapani • Noam Dorr • Chelsea Werner-Jatzke • Sarah Minor • Cori A. Winrock The Veer & the Verge: A Discussion of National Identity, Migration, and Diasporic Convergence in Divya Victor’s CURB UW1-010Aaron Cohick • Divya Victor • CJ Martin • Serena Chopra Resisting Futurity: An Equinoctial Workshop UW1-060Megan Kaminski • Linda Russo

10:15am PDT

Break

10:45am PDT

Bookfair—Open Books: A Poem Emporium DISC-152 Makerspace Ask Not What Poetry Can Do For Video, But What Video Can Do For Poetry DISC-252Courtlin Byrd • Zak Byrd • Brent Cox • Corbin Louis • Madison McCartha Grotesquing Gender: Deforming Narrative Now DISC-061 AuditoriumAimee Parkison • Jennifer Natalya Fink • Rebecca Brown • Michelle Donahue

7:00pm PDT

Special Event: Nathaniel Mackey and Marty Ehrlich: A Collaborative Performance Hugo House, Seattle, WANathaniel Mackey • Marty Ehrlich